Chapter 36: Smuggling Business
The treasure hunt mouse rolls in Link's palm with the gold coin in both hands, and he can't put it down.
It's no wonder that Platinum Hotel's Omniscient Gold Coins are minted from the purest gold and are crafted with a special process to ensure that they will not erode and weathered over time, with each coin guaranteed at 8.22 grams.
Link was angry when he saw it, and the treasure hunt rat didn't know the meaning of this gold coin, and actually regarded it as a treasure.
Link pulled the Omniscient Gold Coin and the Treasure Hunt Mouse apart, then pinched the back of the Treasure Hunt Rat's neck with one hand and shook it slightly.
"Hey, Xiaobao, come to your senses! You said Jack had a treasure hidden in the house, take me there. β
The treasure hunt rat woke up, his eyes reluctantly pulled away from the gold coin, jumped to the ground, and quickly ran to the door of Jack's house, motioning for Link to follow.
"Ah Fu, you search outside, I'll go in and take a look."
Ah Fu didn't raise his head, and his tone was full of pleasure: "Okay, boss, you go and get busy." β
Nearly thirty corpses, Ah Fu's eyes lit up, and he swung his searchlight on the stone table next to him, and searched for it with great pleasure.
Link followed Po into the house.
The internal structure of the Jack gang has not changed much from when Link came in his previous life.
There is a clear distinction between the work area and the relaxation area.
Workspaces fall into two broad categories.
One is the same office cubicle as urban white-collar workers, and the other is a fighting octagon cage and various sports equipment.
At first glance, it may seem strange how these two very different styles can be combined to be called a workspace.
But as long as you understand the business of the Jack Gang, you can understand why.
The main business of the Jack Gang is to collect protection money from the neighborhood, and the lattice office is used by the thugs to keep track of their monthly rent collection. Fighting octagonal cages, fitness equipment are meant to maintain a strong physique, which can play an advantage when collecting rent and protecting the safety and stability of the neighborhood.
The relaxation area is even simpler, with a large TV and a few rows of tables, chairs and benches, which is the most suitable for watching a game and having a meal.
Further inside is the office of the Jack gang boss, a large space for one person, with a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, no matter day or night, you can see the bustling city on the other side of the canal.
At this moment, the blinds fell, and through the gap, you could see the lights on the other bank and the sparkling waves reflected on the river.
There is also a door next to the floor-to-ceiling window, which opens to a large balcony twenty meters long.
The most eye-catching thing about the room is the chairs that are very different from the decoration style and temperament of the whole room.
The sober solid wood desks and the mahogany bookshelves that fill the entire wall give people a suave, bookish feel.
But in between, there was a wild tiger skin chair, which suddenly destroyed the atmosphere and artistic conception built before, and only a nouveau riche temperament was left in the office......
In the corner of the office, there is also an old iron safe half a person high.
After looking at Jack's office, Link felt that there were too many slots for a while, and he didn't know where to start complaining.
The treasure rat scurried all the way up the desk, got up and pointed to an entire bookshelf at the back of the office, squeaking nonstop.
"You mean, there's room behind the shelves?"
The Treasure Hunt Mouse nodded, it could only sense something behind the wall, but it didn't know how to get in.
Link whistled first and gathered all the marching ants.
Then he pointed to the old safe and said, "I will arrange a task for you to open the safe." β
After two 'vicious battles' just now, especially the second one when he was abused by John, the marching ants also had a fire in their bellies.
Now when I saw the safe, I rushed up like a swarm, surrounding the safe, and the metal on the surface disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Link was not idle, and began to look for a way to open the secret room in the office.
In his previous life, he swept up the Jack Gang, Link just blew up the safe, looted the money and weapons and left, and finally made a total of more than 300,000 yuan in cash.
I didn't know that there was a secret room in the boss's office.
Now that I think about it, the outside safe must only contain a part, and the real treasures are hidden in the secret room.
Since it's a secret room, the bookshelf will definitely open a way after pulling the mechanism.
"Xiaobao, can you feel the smell of metal on the entire shelf."
Link took the Treasure Hunt Rat in his hand, using it as a living metal detector.
The treasure hunt rat stood on the palm of his master's hand, shaking the tip of his nose with great effort, sniffing the metal seriously.
Finally, on the right-hand side, the treasure hunt rat smelled an undetectable hint of metal.
"Squeak! Squeak squeak! β
"Well, then I know."
The treasure hunt rat took the initiative to climb onto Link's shoulder, freeing his master's hands.
Because this breath is very weak, the treasure hunt rat can only determine an approximate range, and the rest depends on Link.
But the scope is determined, isn't the rest just a matter of having hands?
Link began to pull out the books on the shelves.
When I drew a copy of the "Encyclopedia of Animals" in red skin, there was a sudden sound of gears clicking behind the bookshelf.
"Found it!"
The bookshelves began to split to the left and right, and Link immediately pulled out a micro punch and a pistol.
This is a place he didn't discover in his previous life, and he must be cautious when exploring!
It's not to blame Link for being cautious, you look at what happened today, first encountered level 10 elite Jack, and then level 40 Legendary Killer King Jack.
It is said that eating a trench grows a wisdom, this has been done twice, can you not have a memory?
"Xiaobao, feel if there's anyone inside."
Link cautiously walked through the secret door and down the stairs.
Squeak squeak!
The treasure hunt rat smells a mixed and complex smell.
The smell was strange, rich and peculiar, completely different from the human scent that I had smelled before.
The treasure hunt rat tried to extract the smell one by one, and then told the boss after making sure of it.
Link quietly walked to the corner of the stairs and waited for the answer from the treasure hunt mouse before deciding on his next course of action.
As soon as he successfully peeled off a breath, the treasure hunt rat felt the terrifying majesty in the breath, and was instantly frightened to stiffen, and fell directly into Link's palm and passed out.
"Xiaobao?"
Link saw the treasure hunt rat fall and tried to play with his fingers, but found that it was stiff, and the whole rat looked like it had been frozen in the refrigerator for three days and three nights.
Link could still feel its heartbeat, but the rigidity was real.
"Dropping the chain at a critical moment is simply more unreliable than a sand sculpture."
Link thought to himself, carefully loading the treasure hunt mouse into the gun belt grid.
Without the Treasure Hunt Mouse Detection, the rest of everything would have to be up to Link himself.
Link held the micro punch in one hand, and the searchlight that Ah Fu carried when he came in the other.
Although the searchlight was in his hand, Link did not immediately turn it on.
Turning on the searchlight too early is to remind the enemy inside that it is not good for you.
There was only one way down the stairs, and there were no extra forks, and Link only had one way to go to the dark.
It was only at the end of the staircase that Link stopped.
He smelled an indescribable smell, a bit like carrion, salty seawater, and excrement mixed together.
Link took a deep breath and took the micro charge and killed it directly.
The searchlight turns on in an instant!
The intense light instantly illuminated the secret room.
Suddenly, a wild aura of savage awoke suddenly, and a pair of green eyes stared at Link under the bright light.
Roar!
A loud roar echoed in the secret room, as if the key was activated, and suddenly the entire secret room was 'excited', and all kinds of voices were intertwined, directly making Link look stupid.
Giggles!
Woohoo!
Wow!
Roar!
heγtui~
Hey, it looks like there's something weird mixed in.
Link was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses.
He didn't understand why the Jack Gang's underground vault looked like a small zoo.
The king of beasts, the lion, the tiger, the hound, the bald eagle, the radiant mutant wolf, and an alpaca.
These beasts were all locked in cages, and they all woke up under the bright light at the moment, and the iron cages that hit them rattled and the noise mixed together was even more head-heading.
Nearly a third of the entire basement is still empty, and there are thick iron gates at both ends that can be raised and lowered.
Link walked over to the railing, shone his searchlight downward, and saw the sparkling water.
There was also a small table next to the beast's cage.
Link saw a small notebook on the table, opened it and flipped through it casually, and immediately understood everything.
"I see!"
"Jack's gang is ostensibly doing a living by collecting land and rent, but in fact it has been smuggling animals!"
Don't underestimate animal smuggling.
As the saying goes, scarcity is expensive.
Perhaps in peacetime, these wild animals are commonplace, and you can see them for a small amount of money to go to the zoo.
But after the reckoning date, on Wasteland, eighty percent of the planet's life is affected by nuclear radiation.
Many animals in the wild died under the nuclear cloud, and the few that survived also mutated.
Now it is even more difficult to find the most primitive animals.
Only the truly powerful can afford to buy these animals as a way to show their wealth and power.
Of course, there's more to their fun than that.
The mere purchase of animals can no longer arouse the desire of the powerful to compare.
On top of that, they move on to an even wilder event β Beast Fighting!
This fighting beast certainly does not refer to the struggle between man and the beast, but to the mutual battle between the beasts.
Lao Tzu has the money to buy wild animals that are not exposed to radiation, and he can also afford to buy the most brutal and awesome wild animals!
The battle of the beast is not the point, the point is the terrible desire of the powerful behind it.
Although the Jack Gang is not directly involved in the capture of wild animals, the wild animals that enter Shadu are sold to all parts of Shadu through the Jack Gang.
Seeing this, Link suddenly had a bold idea in his head......
Squeak squeak!
Just as Link was thinking, the treasure hunt rat woke up at some point, suddenly pulled Link's clothes, and hurriedly sounded the alarm.
Outside the gloomy alley, a large group of people is approaching!